GameStop Hires 20-Person Team for Gaming NFT Marketplace, Stock Surges

A GameStop store in New York. Image: Shutterstock. Article by Jeff Benson. Decrypt – January 6, 2022.

Congratulations if you spotted the Easter eggs in GameStop’s job advertisements. Turns out the video game retailer really is getting into crypto. GameStop has created a new unit for building an NFT platform and hired more than 20 people thus far to run it, according to a report today from The Wall Street Journal. The platform will allow customers to buy, sell and trade NFTs of video game items, such as clothes and weapons for player avatars. The company had previously placed ads looking for engineers and others for the team. […]

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